Matt's restro

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Postby Mattbob53 » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:25 pm

My plan is to fully restore my patrol, but i want to be able to drive it to work, fishing/hunting while I'm working on it. So it's going to be a long process. Here's a few pics, I picked it up in December.
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Postby Mattbob53 » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:36 pm

Few other picks
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Postby RiverPatrol » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:37 pm

The seats look great! :handgestures-thumbupright:
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Postby moore_rb » Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:21 am

so does the custom tank!
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White 65 Hardtop L60-3-00617 (undergoing restoration)
Red 65 hardtop 4L60-002565 (scrapped for parts)
66 Hardtop "El-Bondo Patrol", L60-00511 (Restored, then sold June2020)
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Postby faux40 » Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:10 am

The tank is cool! Any chance you have some in-progress pics of tank being built?

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Postby Mattbob53 » Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:51 am

No picks, I only have a mig and wanted to tig weld it, so I had a shop do it
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Postby pdub » Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:00 pm

I think I have vertigo now from looking at those pics LOL :D
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Postby Mattbob53 » Sat Apr 02, 2016 12:35 am

Cleaned up my wheel. 3 or 4 hours of sanding and polishing
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Postby mtnPatrol » Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:02 am

Big improvement!
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Postby RiverPatrol » Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:23 am

That turned out great. What did you sand it with?
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